I discovered that there was a beach in Jerusalem a few months after my book was published in Hebrew. One day, as I was visiting my parents, I met my father’s childhood friend from Jerusalem, Yuval. He asked me why I named my debut short story collection Jerusalem Beach. I told him the name came from one of the stories about an elderly woman, named Lilian, who has Alzheimer’s. One of the only memories she has left is of visiting a snowy beach in Jerusalem as a child.
